Colombia: How Colombia’s Praised Land Restitution Process is Failing the Displaced

Apr 20, 2016 | Stephen Gill, Colombia Reports
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Colombia’s land restitution process is failing to adequately process the return of land to victims of displacement and is now facing severe criticism from both NGOs and political movements. The Victims and Land Restitution Law (Law 1448) was enacted in 2011 with the chief purpose to reclaim around 8 million illegally stolen hectares, an area larger than Costa Rica, that have been forcefully seized from millions of Colombians since 1985.